Main Awards
| Best Film | Best Director |
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| Best Actor | Best Actress |
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| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
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| Best Music Director | Best Story |
| 4th Filmfare Awards | |
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| Date | 5 May 1957 |
| Site | Bombay |
| Highlights | |
| Best Film | Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje |
| Best Actor | Dilip Kumar for Devdas |
| Best Actress | Nutan for Seema |
| Most awards | Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (4) |
| Most nominations | Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (4) |
The 4th Filmfare Awards were held on 5 May 1957, in Bombay, honoring the best films in Hindi cinema for the year 1956. [1] [2] [3]
Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje led the ceremony with 4 nominations, followed by Devdas with 3 nominations, and C.I.D. , Seema and Shree 420 with 2 nominations each.
Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje won 4 awards, including Best Film and Best Director (for V. Shantaram), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.
While most of the nominated films were released in 1956, the films which won most of the main awards were 1955 releases. Devdas, Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje, Seema and Shree 420 were 1955 films, but were not considered for the 3rd Filmfare Awards.
For the first time in the history of Filmfare Awards did a winner refuse to accept their award – Vyjayanthimala, who won Best Supporting Actress for Devdas, declined her award as she thought that her role was not supporting and was equally important as that film's other female lead, Suchitra Sen.
Nutan won her first of five Best Actress awards for her performance in Seema.
| Best Film | Best Director |
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| Best Actor | Best Actress |
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| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
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| Best Music Director | Best Story |
| Best Editing | Best Cinematography |
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| Best Art Direction | Best Sound Design |
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The following films had multiple wins and/or multiple nominations
| Movie | Awards | Nominations |
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| Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje | 4 | 4 |
| Devdas | 3 | 3 |
| Seema | 2 | 2 |
| Shree 420 | ||
| C.I.D. | 0 |
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